I Reincarnated As A Villainess, But Why Did I Become A Cat Butler Instead? - Chapter 193

Chapter 97.1

As I hugged Sasha tightly once and then handed her over to Dimitri, he scooped her up and placed her in the middle of the summoning circle.

“It’ll be okay, right?”

Hearing my trembling voice, Dimitri wrapped his arms around me and soothed me. I anxiously watched Sasha, unaware that he, who disliked contact with others, was touching me himself.

Even though I wanted to ask Dimitri why he wasn’t responding, I chose to stay quiet, thinking that my nervous behavior wouldn’t be helpful in this situation.

‘Dimitri probably isn’t responding because we can’t predict what is going to happen.’

Everything depended on Sasha.

As the black smoke of the summoning circle billowed and swirled as if it were about to engulf Sasha, the light grew increasingly intense, and as it absorbed that light into its darkness, the smoke continued to billow upwards, expanding to a size where Sasha was no longer visible.

I instinctively held onto Dimitri, feeling instinctive fear.

Dimitri exclaimed.

“It seems like an impressive one.”

“How do you know?”

“If it takes time, it means that demons are salivating and rushing in from beyond the door. They will fight amongst themselves, and the strongest one among them will emerge victorious and come through. If Sasha’s desire is strong, then there will be powerful ones on the other side of the door, drawn by the scent of that desire.”

Those words didn’t sound good to me.

Didn’t it mean that they were fighting to devour Sasha’s soul? It felt like I was watching a baby sea seal floating in the middle of a sea teeming with hungry shark packs.

“Wouldn’t it be more difficult for Sasha to make a contract if a strong demon comes through?”

“Though if she manages to complete the contract safely, Sasha will become stronger than anyone else.”

I nervously watched the black smoke.

Time continued to pass.

All of a sudden, a strong wind blew from the summoning circle at a certain moment, and the smoke shot up towards the moon like an explosion.

Whoooo—!

“Ah…!”

When I hunched my body and screamed in surprise, Dimitri wrapped his arms around me, shielding me from the wind.

“Are you sure things are going well?”

Even though he was right next to me, the sound of the wind cutting through the air was so fierce that I had to shout to be heard. Dimitri, who was standing in front of me with his back to the summoning circle, covered his face with one arm and turned around.

“Something…!”

I could see his lips moving, but the sound of the wind was so loud that I couldn’t hear anything.

I tried to look over his shoulder to see what Sasha was doing, but the ominous black smoke had enveloped her like a veil, making it impossible to see anything. At that moment, a lightning-like flash of light emanated from the summoning circle. Simultaneously, the howling wind and the black smoke abruptly ceased.

My ears felt muffled. It felt like the whole place had become extremely quiet.

“Sasha… huh?”

When I frantically searched for Sasha, I found myself looking up at the empty space in confusion. In the meanwhile, I could hear Dimitri muttering.

“Something seems wrong.”

The ground where the summoning circle had been drawn, despite being a massive rocky terrain, was now split apart as if by a severe drought. And standing majestically on top of it was Sasha, with two giant demons visible nearby.

“Two demons…?”

One was a demon with the head and body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion. The other had an enormous head, even larger than the lion-shaped demon or Samael, with an eye patch covering its eyes, leaving only its sharp nose and large, spear-like mouth visible.

Judging by Dimitri’s expression, the appearance of two demons was something he hadn’t expected either.

“What happens when there are two demons?”

“Well, that can’t happen.”

It was then.

A huge face opened its mouth.

“Finally we meet, contractor.”

As Dimitri had warned, the demon’s voice was far from pleasant to hear. I felt a shiver run down my spine as I stared at the demon, its voice akin to scraping metal.

‘Contractor…?’

The word the demon uttered was unusual since Sasha wasn’t a contractor of any demon yet. As I tilted my head in puzzlement, Dimitri’s gaze was fixed on me. He had a strange look.

“Why?”

“The name of that demon is Agaliaept.”

“I see…”

“It seems like he’s talking to Rowaine.”

I widened my eyes and alternated my gaze between Dimitri and Agaliaept. Upon hearing his words, it did seem like Agaliaept was focusing on me rather than Sasha.

Dumbfounded, I pointed a finger at myself.

“Suddenly, to me…?”

At that moment, Agaliaept grinned, revealing countless sharp, zigzagging teeth, like shark’s teeth.

“There was no way to reach you, but the door happened to open. Kiki. I never thought I’d have to resort to borrowing someone else’s door to meet my contractor? Kikiki.”

As he laughed, a demon in the form of a lion suddenly charged at him in annoyance, upon which Agaliaept exclaimed, “You brute!” and screamed as he scurried in all directions.

Please consider sending some love either through the translator’s Ko-fi or by leaving a rating/review for this series on novel updates~!

For update pings, novel discussions and/or to send mistake reports, join our discord server~